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"Sectarian medicine" is a chauvinistic, if not pejorative, term. In use today, it is not meant to imply that all sectarian practitioners are cultists or even true believers. It is meant to designate the systems of health care that compete with each other and with mainstream medicine. All are capable of taking off their gloves to protect their turf. However, today they all seek licensure as certification of the specialized nature of their knowledge and skills and thereby codify a competitive advantage in that regard. They are perhaps more akin to guilds of old than to present-day unions." - Nortin M. Hadler MD, Worried Sick: A Prescription for Health in an Overtreated America (Get the book.)

"The chauvinistic slogan "my country, right or wrong" asks people to fight for causes their government espouses, and may later repudiate, and to embrace the values and worldviews of a small group of political leaders. It ignores the interdependence and the shared future of all people on the globe. There is nothing in the normal human mind that forbids the expansion of one's loyalty above the level of one's country; we are not constrained to swear exclusive allegiance to one flag only. We can be loyal to our community without giving up loyalty to our province, state, or region." - Ervin Laszlo, Quantum Shift in the Global Brain: How the New Scientific Reality Can Change Us and Our World (Get the book.)

"European chauvinistic mind-set of the time. They believed in the evolutionary vision promoted by the anthropologist Lewis Henry Morgan, who divided human cultural development into Savagery, Barbarism, and Civilization. All these men believed that European civilization resided at the top end of the developmental pyramid, and that aristocratic scientists like themselves came from the upper level of civilization's cultural strata." - Will Allen, The War on Bugs (Get the book.)

"If we consider the historical examples of the ancient Hawaiians or the Lakota Indians, we can see that although these peoples lacked a written language, and although they were brutal warriors and chauvinistic toward women, they also exhibited many "fundamental heroic virtues" and a certain "primordial vigor" that we can still admire today, even if our contemporary idea of these cultures has been somewhat romanticized. An important part of the dignity of warrior consciousness can be found in its motive force, its energetic focus and determination." - Steve McIntosh, Integral Consciousness and the Future of Evolution (Get the book.)

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